education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan (2025)
Global Ecologies Studio, Burren College of Art, IE (2024)
Global Ecologies Studio, Burren College of Art, IE (2024)
solo exhibitions
2025 My New House, CYNK Studios (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
2025 Let Me Make You Dinner, 230 w. Michigan Ave (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
2025 Let Me Make You Dinner, 230 w. Michigan Ave (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
selected group exhibitions
2025 Timing, Sometimes Space (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
2025 Raw, Michigan Union (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
2025 When Metronomes Meet, Hammerspace Gallery (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
2025 Process + Perception, Detroit Artists Market (Detroit, Michigan)
2025 Raw, Michigan Union (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
2025 When Metronomes Meet, Hammerspace Gallery (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
2025 Process + Perception, Detroit Artists Market (Detroit, Michigan)
selected curation
2025 to care for_____,&, Riverside Arts Center (Ypsilanti, Michigan)
awards, grants
2025 Candy R. Wei Prize for International Studies in Art and Design
2024 David Robert and Sylvia Jean Nelson Foundation for Arts and Letters Scholarship
2024 Tamer Travel Grant
2022-2025 Penny W. Stamps Scholarship
2022-2025 Go Blue Guarantee tuition grant from the University of Michigan
2024 David Robert and Sylvia Jean Nelson Foundation for Arts and Letters Scholarship
2024 Tamer Travel Grant
2022-2025 Penny W. Stamps Scholarship
2022-2025 Go Blue Guarantee tuition grant from the University of Michigan
press
2025 “The Artist on Display: Chelsea Ayumi Koga, ‘My New House’,” People’s World
employment
2025 Studio Assistant for Lee Marchalonis, Studio Souterre (Detroit, Michigan)
2025 Studio Assistant for Alberto Mier, Penland School of Craft (Mitchell County, North Carolina)
2022-2024 Wine Writer, York Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
2025 Studio Assistant for Alberto Mier, Penland School of Craft (Mitchell County, North Carolina)
2022-2024 Wine Writer, York Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Michigan)